One Sunday Afternoon...

Mommy & Eva

The weather was perfect, so we took a walk to the park...
We had the playground all to ourselves and had a great time playing, swinging, laughing, sliding, and climbing together!

"I love you and your pretty blue eyes" - Daddy (first told to Madilynn at 2 mo. old!)

down the slide with Daddy...

climbing the rock wall with Daddy (he's on the other side!)

Sliding with Mommy...

We found a beautiful trail along the canal that lead us back home...

We had to stop and say "hi" to the horse...

When we got back to our house Elizabeth said, "ride bicycle!" So that's what we did!

riding together

A couple of quick videos of the sliding - enjoy!!

A wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon!!!

Fun pictures...

Not sure what to call this post, I just have lots of fun/good pictures to share!

Eva on the butterfly quilt!
This quilt was made by their great-Granny before Madilynn was born and all of the girls have gotten to enjoy it!

She's found her hands/fingers and loves to try to eat them!

precious smiles is what we are getting these days!! And for the big news....She's sleeping all night (has been for the last week, 8-9hrs.) yeah!!

Mommy is loving the extra sleep!

Thursday afternoon we got some pictures with our pumpkins on the porch...

When we came in Madilynn wanted to hold Eva again, so I got another picture!

Saturday afternoon I took Madilynn to get her haircut. She was excited to have it cut too! Before

After!

we love it! As Elizabeth would say, "I love it"! That's her new phrase sometimes it's "I like it" and sometimes it's "I love it". I kind of used it on her the other day and it worked...I was putting her in the seat in the Wal-Mart basket and she didn't want to sit there she wanted to walk and hold on to the basket. So, as I sat her in it I said in her way, "I love it when you sit in the basket and obey Mommy", and she said "I love it". It was great - a success!
This morning before church

Eva this morning before her bottle

Last Week & Fall Break Weekend!

Last week after dropping Madilynn off at piano class Elizabeth got to play outside for a little while

She enjoyed it! She kept telling me "play outside!" Saying, "cheese" really big.
Wednesday I got Eva to give my big smiles...

lately a smile has included sticking her tongue out as well...

After her bath

so sweet!

Friday was Fall Break here, so Michael didn't have any students Thursday or Friday. So, Friday afternoon after naps we took the girls to the little zoo in town and then to the park.

Havin fun!

Elizabeth's first time to go down this big slide! So excited that she did it all by herself she had to go down again just before we left! This is quite an accomplishment considering when she first went up she couldn't even walk across the platform to the slide due to the height and being able to see through, she just dropped to her knees and started crying.

Saturday afternoon (after the Razorback game) a friend came over to watch the girls and Michael and I went on a hike to the wind cave.

This was my first time hiking in the mountains. It was fun to get out and see the beautiful views! The trail was fairly steep you climb 900ft. in 1.3miles.

Here is the wind cave from a distance...

The views were beautiful with the fall colors...

at the wind cave

inside

we are standing on top of the cave

Here's the view to the left from standing on top of the cave

The view to the right from on top of the cave

on our way back down - pretty trees

Michael took this video inside the cave - another hiker was playing a bagpipe. Pretty cool to get to experience it with the music! I'm just glad he thought to get a video!




Eva having a conversation with me

Sunday we spent time outside after lunch. We planted tulip and daffodil bulbs in the front. The girls got to help and they enjoyed that. We are getting the yard ready for winter -putting everything away. Then Michael and the girls went out again after naps and washed all the windows! The girls enjoyed all the time they had outside and they say they can't wait for snow!